Professional Outreach Program (POP)

  Description and Overview:

The Professional Outreach Program addresses the needs of professionals within the woodturning field. These professionals include writers, collectors, teachers, demonstrators, and gallery owners or managers. The goals are to improve services to the professional turner and to promote turned wood as a collectable art form. The heart of this program is a comprehensive database that allows communication with our professional members. Through these communications, information can be gathered and dispersed on a large range of exciting projects that will fulfill the goals stated above. The links on the left of this page display the following:

Professional Directories:

The heart of the POP program is a comprehensive database and email program. In addition to providing communication with our professional members, this database generates an important resource, the Professional Directories. These online directories can be searched by zipcode, name, state, etc.

• Professional Turners Directory. Helps customers, collectors and galleries find a woodturner based on types of turning and sales venues.
• Demonstrator Directory helps AAW chapters to locate qualified individuals for demonstrations for chapter meetings and for regional symposiums.
• Teacher Directory helps both the teachers and prospective students by sharing information that will further the education of woodturning.
• Writer/Scholar Directory. allows writers and scholars to describe their articles, books or research.
• Directory of Collectors. Allow galleries and individual turners to see the various interests of the collector.
• Gallery Directory assists collectors and turners find galleries that specialize in turned art

Fall 2005 POP survey results

• Main exhibition survey responses
• Written survey response comments

 

Insurance

Since most homeowner's insurance does not cover private business activities, inventory, teaching, equipment and property, the AAW is sponsoring a group policy that individual members can purchase at reasonable rates to cover their commercial activities of woodturning. Click on this link for more information.

Fellowship Grant

This grant is avalable to AAW members to encourage creative growth, research, or provide inspiration for new directions in turned wood art. An applicant might be interested in pushing their work creatively in another direction, or they might be interested in a topic for written research, or for influence of a new direction in their work. Click here for details.

Join

In order to be included in the AAW Professional Outreach Program, one has to be a member of the American Association of Woodturners and fill out the POP application. Click on this link to access the online POP registration form.

POP Committee

The Professional Outreach Committee welcomes your suggestions and comments. The committee members and email addresses are here: Professional Outreach Committee